welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour g.o.p. presidential hopeful herman cain continues to shows ignorance of the u.s. constitution and his prejudice toward muslims is the latest notch in his wall of shame a call to ban all construction of u.s. mosques republicans plan to clinch the twenty twelve seat this type of bigotry and being fair or honest has never been a concern of the republican party tonight a daily take on what the last five republican presidents united states all have in common here's a hint illegitimacy. the republican race to the bottom is heating up in an interview with fox news sunday

herman cain ripped apart the constitution and argued that any american community has the right to ban the construction of mosques cain was alluding to the controversy in murphysboro going to see their plans to build an islamic center had been put on hold by bandos and right wing lawmakers in the community can defend his position with this piece of impeccable logic. any community then say we don't want to a mosque in our community they could say that chris let's move back to the fundamental issue that the people cost base of the same but they objected to be objecting to the fact that. is both a religion and set of laws to real law that's the difference between any one of our other traditional religions which is just about religious purpose and the people in the community know best and i hope in the south the people in the community so you're saying any community if they want to ban a mosque yes they have the right to do that. islam is the only religion with

a set of laws has he ever heard of the ten commandments still this is only the latest republican attack on the first amendment in an effort to make muslims second class citizens in states so how can republicans claim to be the ultimate defenders of the constitution continue to distort it piece by piece as to pick up a few votes from the fearful far right here to weigh in on the issues gordon cling instrument former navy chaplain and founder of the pray in jesus name project gordon walk of. time and go bush realist years in jesus name thank you for having me thank you gordon do you really want government to be able to tell people of any religion that they can or cannot build a house of worship. well of course i support and defend as a former navy chaplain a constitution of the united states including the first amendment which protects our right to free religious exercise it does not however protect our right to kill people or our right to do violence in the name of

a false religion like islam islam is herman cain so articulately argued is not really a religion so much as it is a hotel tarion government and they're trying to set up a separate city council in murfreesboro tennessee if they wanted to add insult to try to build a mosque with them on garden. yes well of course you'll recall how shariah law if it could be used to people i'm talking about a shia a some right the lady in buffalo who was beheaded by her husband this is her husband who was convicted of murder for beheading his wife because she can't she wanted to divorce ordinary there's crazy polygamous mormons in arizona and new mexico and colorado to the fact of the matter is that when people break the law in the name of any religion you bust them that has nothing to do with same you can't build a church we don't ban mormons from building building temples well if you remember

house utah was admitted to the union they did have to give up their polygamy as a religion in order to earn statehood we should have that same standard in murfreesboro think about risk to bury for example here's a young girl in ohio who already has a million ited states that if you want to if that but your religion a religion cannot be about violence there's this this is a totally phony argument. who have to do it because gary in ohio was threatened to be killed by her father in the name of sure write a lot muslims advocate shariah law and guess who there has been a half a dozen abortion doctors in the united states killed in the name of jesus corden does that mean that we should say that you can't have a church no that means i denounce the k.k.k. i denounce violence in an evil proportion but this man mohammed this not denounce violence in tech she advocates violence he had to. go into the iran not serves

chapter nine and verse five he says most limbs can and should kill christians slay the idolater wherever you find them and take them captive the shoah botanists church says the pope is the anti-christ should we ban her church before one of the tries to torch the local catholic church or do you think i pose the as i christ to this religious opinion written by. not necessarily by michele bachmann but i'm saying that while you know i got my very simple question for you gordon do you do you think that she should be that her church should be banned because they say the pope is the anti-christ how is this your group advocating violence for polygamy or the rape of clients as long hot it says how is he different from the bull edge this that that michele bachmann and rick santorum signed this is pornography she be outlawed gay should be converted should we ban her church do you want to and muslims hate the first amendment this man mommy dearest cartoon ok man mohammed if

you could be killed just following this video right now a player simply you know take on the hood so that is what i'm talking thank you this time and when he does that again or in fact we're going to end right now that's it for. herman cain's commandments shouldn't be all that surprising after all ever since reagan kicked off his one thousand nine hundred campaign in philadelphia mississippi where three civil rights workers were brutally murdered with a speech on states' rights every single republican candidate has had a dog whistle to their bigot base in order to get elected and then the same kind of bigotry that you just saw exhibited by by gordon kling and schmidt is is the kind of thing that is frankly cutting away at the foundations of this country it needs to be repudiated by all of us and the whole idea that somebody should not be able to build a church or a mosque or whatever simply because that's the religion they were born into is fundamentally un-american and in that context at least politically even.

it's the good the bad in the very very. time of tahn it troll big bully. i gotta practice this more first the good rudy giuliani what no really over the weekend giuliani had some great advice for the republican party in an interview with c.n.n. about new york's decision to legalize same sex marriage giuliani had this warning for the g.o.p. . i think that marriage should be true to men and women but i think that the republican party would be well advised to get the heck out of people's bedrooms and let these things get decided by states i see borehole and i were. drilling so much on the subject of gays and lesbians and whether it's right or wrong in politics

giuliani telling republicans to drop the gay baiting you must be passing on running for president this time the bad newt gingrich remember when his entire campaign staff quit a few months back claiming they didn't want to work for a huckster reli were right according to recent finance campaign finance reform gingrich has spent more than five hundred thousand dollars a quarter of his entire presidential campaign war chest on fly and luxury private jets all around the country i guess he's taking a page out of sarah palin's book act like you're running for president so a bunch of suckers around the country will throw money at you and finance your rock star lifestyle so i'm going to have more tonight newt's campaign likes the hotel rooms with jacuzzis. and a very very ugly oklahoma governor mary fallin taking a page from her neighbor to the south texas governor rick perry palin is calling for a statewide day of prayer to fight off the heat wave sweeping the nation palin told her constituents to start praying because a lot of prayers will move the heart of god i guess this is the republican strategy to present prevent catastrophic manmade climate change rather than embrace green

technology to advise americans to cut energy consumption republicans want to just to pray so how long till we begin sacrificing first for us to assure a good crop says that's very good looking. after the break how america is becoming one nation under anti-psychotic drugs. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here in the. i think the plumbing the the one well.

we haven't got the shows there are they can safely get ready because of the freedom . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

but other news is our nation chock full of psychotics look at the types of medication american state regularly apparently the answer is yes are not to watch t.v. anymore and not see an advertisement for some sort of anti-psychotic medication take for example this ad for the drug abilify. here's me and here's my depression before i started taking of pelham five i was taking an antidepressant alone most days i could count on a brave face and not all through but other days i still struggled with my

depression i was managing it all mr wave creeping up on me i felt stuck i just couldn't shake my depression so i talked to my doctor he said adding abilify to my antidepressant could help with my depression and that some people had symptom improvement as early as one to two weeks he also told me about a free trial offer from the telephone line now i feel more in control of my depression. then they go on to talk about look out here's all the side effects and how back in the old days and i psychotics like abilify were taken only by a very very few people mostly seriously mentally troubled individuals but today they're all the rage in fact in two thousand and eight anti-psychotics became the number one selling type of prescription drug in america with over fourteen billion dollars in annual sales more people are taking it i psychotics than high cholesterol drugs and acid reflux medications so what's the reason for this apparent surge in psychosis in america are drug companies taking us for

a ride james ridgeway is a senior correspondent mother jones magazine he dresses this issue in a recent article and joins me now to talk more about it james welcome great to have you with us it does this explain our wars were all psychotic. well i don't think you need to go that far but well alternatively does might explain the lack of you know why why are people on the streets in greece and not mean states is it because we're all medicated i've read statistics that one in ten americans is on some sort of serious psychological but i think the real thing here is that it really hits the edges of the population and it's the kids. you know it is the opiate because the way you sort of like. keep warehouse passive so does the drugs so this is the the chemical equivalent of restraints you know for people for cheaply warehousing old people and forty four cheaply teaching unruly kids you know

not only that but prisons you know used to use these drugs i can remember reading the deposition of the warden in angola prison in louisiana rural kane. who said that half the population of five thousand was on drugs well it's quite a few people and it's not a good sign for where they're going to go or how they're going to be when they get out and that's not it's not rehabilitation are we is this so much. if you know what i'm talking about. it was it was a very new world some of the drugs that got eventually put into everybody's food and everybody you know and everybody became a happy i mean have we are we stupefied in our culture or or is it pretty much confined to old people and kids that were sick no no i think it's look i think it's because you cut it in no other way this has to do with the relationship of the pharmaceutical industry which makes and stuff in the psychiatrists because you

couldn't do one without the other and there was the psychiatrist maybe you know give prescriptions for this and it turns out that the psychiatrists are on the take with the industry so how does he end up being on the boards of directors of the. the consultants with the with the pharmaceutical companies they're paid to do. various events with a pharmaceutical company in so that they have a vested interest in what i do and i think that this sort of like corporate involvement of the well this is the at the heart of a lot of things here so it's source like the private prison industry makes money every time there's a person or so they lobby for tighter tighter laws against smoking pot and longer sentences and on the other hand the drug companies make more money every time somebody diagnose a psychotic and so they lobby basically the psychiatrists to diagnose more people are psychotic and prescribe more anti-psychotic medications you know i remember

when i went when i was suffering from. depression i went through and he said pulled out a questionnaire and he said do you ever feel blue. you ever hear think you're going to fall off the tracks in front of a train couple questions like that is so easily a question for me. make the green here he went through. you pull the plug open the doors and you roll these boxes try to do this. to try to get to me completely know what but i mean that's that's the difference between a psychiatrist and psychologist and psychologist is going to if you talk therapy because they can prescribe drugs psychiatrists and by and large and i says give it up talk therapy because they really do is prescribe drugs right exactly but i know i know that the psychologist who's going to get off the hook on this deal and everyone says well in psychiatry it's maybe in the pocket of the industry but the

psychologists to really know the psychologists are lobbying for the right to prescribe drugs yeah i don't think this thing about the psychologist is like that you're great you know i mean they're the ones who also you know encourage you to take drugs so how are drugs like abilify different from previous generation anti-psychotics that they just produced drooling soup of occasion. well they change your beat they. supposedly change your behavior but you know it all depends on the person and you in the way you prescribe. so if you have three minutes it is you try something and it works great you can do that if it doesn't work or try something else or you go through a bunch of drugs and doesn't really have any to do with. a known medical condition or not necessarily has to do with it and the big thing here is that if you're on one of these drugs you've got to refill it because if you start to crash your own

out of the draw you crash ok so you got a refill so you got a call from the psychiatrist has no problem coming to visit me four hundred or five minutes so you're dealing with a pushing up and your any of. those your sickly james thanks so much for what it was that. says what eisenhower love the presidency in one nine hundred sixty one five different republicans have been president of united states and every single one of them from richard nixon to george w. bush have been illegitimate ascending to the highest office in the land not through small the democratic elections but instead through fraud and treason don't believe

me. let's start at the beginning with richard nixon in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight richard president lyndon johnson was desperately trying to end the vietnam war but richard nixon knew that the war if the war continued it would tarnish democrat hubert humphrey's chances of winning the election so nixon sent envoys from his campaign to talk to south vietnamese leaders to encourage them not to attend an upcoming peace talk in paris nixon promised south vietnam that he would give them a better deal when he was president than l.b.j. could give them that l.b.j. found out about this political move or maneuver to prolong the vietnam war just three days before the nine hundred sixty eight election he phoned the republican senate leader everett dirksen think it was. i don't rock or democrat thank you a shock america spoke a language store strike. out or are. they gonna

put this stuff. we. are going to. embassy and. the press corps and. the second. i go out to get this in the campaign and they are and this is crazy. those tapes were just released by the l.b.j. library last year it's amazing that's richard nixon that lyndon johnson was accusing of treason. but by then nixon's plan it worked south vietnam boycott of the peace talks the war continued and nixon won the white house thanks to it gerald ford was the next republican after nixon left office the same way he entered it by breaking the law gerry ford took over the jury four was never elected and would

never been president had it not been for richard nixon's treason so those two republicans in office thanks to cold hard treason and then there was ronald reagan elected in one thousand nine hundred he won banks to a little something called the october surprise when his people sabotaged then president jimmy carter's negotiations to release american hostages in iran reagan's people promised the iranians that if they held off on releasing the american hostages and sold show after the election and reagan would give him a sweet weapons deal i had investigative journalist robert perry on my radio show earlier today because he just obtained some of the explosive documents from the george h.w. bush library it pretty clearly show that ronald reagan's campaign did the same thing that richard nixon's did commit treason to win the white house there's a robert perry had to say today about these two crimes. it was nixon's dealings with the rich saigon to get them to sabotage the peace talks in paris that for the

way for nixon to eke out a victory but it also continued the war for four more years and some twenty from thousand american soldiers died now this was an essentially repeated in one thousand eighty it now appears with with some of the same characters working for the republicans who don't well we got away with in sixty eight we could do something similar in one nine hundred eighty three can sabotage the sitting democratic president and that seems to have worked. and reagan's treason just like nixon's treason worked perfectly the iran hostage crisis continued and torpedoed jimmy carter's reelection hopes and the same day reagan took the oath of office almost to the minute the american hostages in iran were released and for that reagan began selling the iranians weapons and spare parts in one thousand nine hundred one and continued until he was busted for it in one thousand nine hundred six remember the iran contra scandal after reagan bush sr was elected but like jerry ford bush was really only president because he served as vice president under reagan at the october surprise didn't hoodwink voters in one thousand nine hundred

eighty you can bet bush sr would never have been elected in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight that's for illegitimate republican presidents and that brings us to the most recent illegitimate republican president george w. bush the man who was given the white house by five right wing justices in the supreme court in the bush v gore supreme court decision in two thousand that stopped the florida recount and a george w. bush the presidency justice antonin scalia wrote in his opinion the counting of votes does in my view threaten irreparable harm to petitioner george w. bush and to the country by casting a doubt upon what he bush claims to be the legitimacy of his election i guess denying the guy who actually won the most votes in florida al gore the presidency did not constitute irreparable harm to scalia and i guess it was important to mention that scalia is son worked for the law firm that was defending george w. bush before the high court just like it was important to mention that clarence

thomas' wife worked in the bush transition team and was busy accepting resumes from people who would serve in the bush white house as long as her husband stop the recount in florida which she did. and more than a year after the election a consortium of newspapers including the washington post the new york times and usa today had their own recount in florida and manually county every vote in a process that took almost a year and concluded that al gore did indeed win the presidency in two thousand as the november twelfth two thousand and one article in the new york times read if all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards and combined with the results of an examination of over votes mr gore would have won that little bit of info was slipped into the seventeenth paragraph of the times story on purpose so that it would attract as little attention as possible around the nation why because the nine eleven attacks just happened and journalists have feared that the people

with the plain truth that george w. bush actually lost the election would further hurt the nation that was already in crisis so for the third time in four decades republicans won the white house under illegitimate circumstances and now today america is in a great depression thanks to thirty years of failed republican policies that have shredded the middle class outsourced our jobs and crippled our national infrastructure you can only wonder how much better off we'd be if five republican presidents had installed the white house in fact the last legitimate republican president the white eisenhower was unlike any other republican since he ran for the white house on a platform of peace that he would end the korean war but i don't buy that they all made him go you know more so i don't know i don't know or knows how it would be over. the other america europe reader i got them working went off to write the

number one problem number one job. oh me oh all right ah yes his two campaign slogans were i like ike and go for peace vote for eisenhower. he was a moderate republican who stood up for working people who kept tax rates on the rich at ninety one percent and made sure that the middle class america was protected by f.d.r.'s new deal policies as he told his brother edgar in one nine hundred fifty four in a letter to him should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear that party again in our political history and eyes in horror was right the only way republicans have to have been able to win the presidency since he left office in sixty one has been by either outright treason or by a criminal fraud involving the supreme court or by being a vice president under a criminal president and that's where we are today dealing with the aftermath of

all these republican crimes and five illegitimate republican presidents stacking the supreme court and the federal judiciary so when people tell you that the republicans would be crazy enough to totally crash the economy the united states either now or next year just to get people to blame barack obama think twice and ask yourself what other october surprise was they maybe planning for next year. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot com free speech dot org and our to dot com also check out our two you tube channels or links to tom hartman dot com this entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and we have a free tom hartman i phone or an i pad app at the app store is honest feedback on twitter at underscore our on facebook at tom underscore our on our blogs message boards and telephone comment line at tom hartman dot com and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there and get active tag your it the seat of.

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